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Welcome to Friends of CCL

New Sentencing Date
Sentencing set for June 11, 2009
10:00 AM in Los Angeles.

Request for New Trial Denied

Charles C. Lynch is the former owner and managing Caregiver for Central Coast Compassionate Caregivers in Morro Bay.

Despite the recent policy changes Charles C. Lynch was to be sentenced on April 23, 2009 at the Federal Court House in Los Angeles, but Judge Wu continued the sentencing until June 11, 2009 to give defense lawyers more time to provide legal briefings to get around the Mandatory Minimums. Judge Wu indicated that if he could get around the mandatory minimums he would but still cannot find legal standing.







Medical Pot Grower Eddy Lepp Gets 10 Years

A medical-marijuana advocate who grew 32,000 plants on his land in Lake County was sentenced to 10 years in prison Monday by a federal judge who criticized the law she was applying.

"I think that amount of time is excessive, but it's not up to me," U.S. District Judge Marilyn Hall Patel said in sentencing Charles "Eddy" Lepp in a San Francisco courtroom crowded with his supporters.

FREE EDDY LEPP!



Heston died, NRA's Mandatory Minimum didn't

"There are only two ways to avoid a mandatory minimum sentence. First, the defendant may provide 'substantial assistance' to the government by turning in other defendants.

Second, some defendants qualify for the 'safety valve' that Congress passed in 1994 to address (at FAMM’s urging) the excessive sentences served by non-violent drug offenders. If the judge finds the defendant is a low-level, non-violent, first-time offender who qualifies for the safety valve, the defendant may be sentenced under the sentencing guidelines instead of the mandatory minimum sentence law.

Although the safety valve is a step in the right direction, the criteria for eligibility is very narrow so thousands of nonviolent drug defendants are still sent to prison for decades under mandatory minimum sentencing laws."

Families Against Mandatory Minimums Foundation

Monday was Canada's Day of Demonstration Against Prohibition and Bill C-26
by Marc Emery. Posted on Monday, December 17 2007

The new Conservative proposals to make the prohibition even more severe -with mandatory minimum sentences- must be opposed by the Canadian cannabis culture - join the national demonstration!

Bill C26 passes vote, going to committee

The Effective National Drug Control Strategy
prepared by the Network of Reform Groups* in consultation with the
National Coalition for Effective Drug Policies*



Jury Nullification

"unreviewable and irreversible power [of the jury] to acquit in disregard of the instruction of the law given by the trial judge. The pages of history shine upon instances of the jury's exercise of its prerogative to disregard instructions of the judge"
D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals, 1972

How FIJA Saved My Life! By D. Paul Stanford
Source: CRRH December 19, 1999
The Fully Informed Jury Act (FIJA) saved my life and I'm happy to be a free man here today to tell this story. I am both the founder of Tree Free EcoPaper, the oldest hemp business in the USA today, and one of the activists that formulated a proposal to regulate cannabis, the Oregon Cannabis Tax Act, that is being advanced via the initiative process in Oregon by our PAC, Campaign for the Restoration and Regulation of Hemp. I was acquitted of growing marijuana in federal court in a trial in December of 1993. continued...



Fully Informed Jury Association

The primary function of the independent juror is not, as many think, to dispense punishment to fellow citizens accused of breaking various laws, but rather to protect fellow citizens from tyrannical abuses of power by government.

Jury Nullification: The Top Secret Constitutional Right



THE DEMOCRACY DEFINED CAMPAIGN

"Suffrage does not define democracy..."

Due to the false preachings of modern politicians, you might have a completely mistaken idea of what democracy is — many people do. This website brings home the realities. The information provided enables you to judge whether you live in a democracy or a despotism, and what you can do about it.

U2b

Scott Morgan has a good piece up What's So Funny About Trying to Legalize Marijuana? where he takes issue with people like William Teach at Stop the ACLU who mock those looking to legalize marijuana and then essentially agree that pot should be legalized. It's a syndrome that we see quite a bit.

How about this for a promo for a TV show? To kick off its next season, Showtime's Weeds gives us a brief history of... weed.

History of Weed - Part 1 of 5 * Part 2 of 5 * Part 3 of 5 * Part 4 of 5 * Part 5 of 5

Magic Weed – The History of Marijuana

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Native Americans Religious Rights Denied (excerpts)
24-02-2009

The county sheriff then got in Crandy’s face: “Just stand here and shut the fuck up! We don’t give a fuck about your religious rights!”

Two Native American brothers whose crops were raided last summer passionately disagree – because the name of their tribe, Tuscarora, literally translates to “People of the Hemp.”

The boat people – these citizens of the United States – came here to escape religious persecution,” he says. “But when they got here from Europe, they started persecuting what they call our pagan religion!” ~ Crandy Johnson, a roadman (ceremonial leader) in the Native American Church

What can never be disputed is the fact that the Tuscarora have been known as the “People of the Hemp” for centuries – long before the invaders arrived. In fact, the name evolved from the Iroquoian word skaru’ren (“hemp gatherers”), bestowed because of the tribe’s gathering and use of Indian hemp for fiber. In Joseph Campbell’s authoritative volume The Way of the Seeded Earth, the Tuscarora are noted to have used hemp for “medicine” as well.

The Ganjawar Comes To The Rez

Celebrity Stoners: American High Society

INDIAN HEMP AND THE DOPE FIENDS OF OLD ENGLAND
Sean Blanchard & Matthew J. Atha MSc

A sociopolitical history of cannabis and the British Empire 1840-1928

When the report of the Indian Hemp Drugs Commission (IHDC) reached 1890's England it met official and public apathy. There was no political debate. It went into the 'forget about this' file on arrival and has stayed there ever since. There was no publicity; The news that "Ganja is not appreciably harmful" was of no concern to the majority of users, who took cannabis products for their medical benefits. The non-medical users were mostly artists who didn't mind a little harm. Prohibitionist sentiment was concentrated on the opium trade between India and China and on alcohol at home. Cannabis use in England was considered negligible, and the authorities were content to have no laws at all controlling it for another thirty years. continued...


Photo of bhang drinkers, from the Indian Hemp Drugs Commission report, 1893



Yes, I know that Showtime is blatantly manipulating me into giving free advertising to their show, but how can I pass it up?

Showtime's Weeds

DWR: Drug Czar Kerlikowske testified on the budget yesterday.

I may have more on this later. It was a bit.. odd. I felt like I needed to be reading between the lines at times. Sure, there was a lot of the standard stuff that a drug czar would say in such a presentation (justifying all the budget items with the drug war language of the past), but then there were statements like this:

There continues to be much discussion in the media about whether personal use of drugs should be decriminalized. What we cannot lose sight of during this discussion, is that we all agree addiction is a preventable and treatable chronic condition.

Notice the use of a non-sequitur instead of denunciation, and the offhand acceptance of the idea of discussion.

He also made another statement that we need to hold up to him whenever possible:

During my tenure, debate will be continuous and inclusive of disparate ideas.



CNN: FBI director schooled on marijuana by Rep. Steve Cohen
Wednesday, May 20, 2009

The Drug Czar speaks... and dances

ONDCP Director Gil Kerlikowske was interviewed this morning on KUOW in Seattle.

The audio is available here. It's a nice extended interview, and gives you a chance to get to know Kerlikowske's style a little bit. It's a mixed bag, with lots of pretty offensive stuff (of course) and some odd material where he puts on his tap shoes and dances up a storm.

Here are a couple of the exchanges...

Note: After the interview, the interviewer took questions from listeners. I didn't listen to all of them, but there were some very good ones who really nailed Kerlikowske on his points (including one who apparently had read The Drug Czar is required by law to lie and referenced the provisions.

“To forbid or even seriously restrict the use of so holy and gracious a herb would cause widespread suffering and annoyance, and to large bands of worshipped ascetics, deep-seated anger. It would rob the people of a solace in discomfort, of a cure in sickness, of a guardian whose precious protection saves them from the attacks of evil influences… Like his Hindu brother, the Musalman fakir reveres Bhang as the lengthener of life, the freer from the bonds of self. Bhang brings union with the Divine Spirit. “We drank Bhang and the mystery I am, grew plain. So grand a result, so tiny a sin.”
~ J.M. Campell
Note on the Religion of Hemp
British Indian Hemp Drugs Commission Report 1839-1894

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The Global Ganja Gathering of 2009

4/20 @ 4:20

These DEAth Merchants and War Brokers have no humanity in their bottom line. We would harp on any foreign country terrorizing the elderly and sick. Instant demonizing, profiled and plastered over the media. But no deviating from the manual for terrorizing our own finding aid with Ganja. So many red flags not seen or censored. Stories hidden in hopes of being forgotten, who in the hell do they think they're kidding? Ganja is or Ganja isn't. Physics says it is. Debates over.

DEAth lies are a means to a semi-religious duty of a kind of puritanical unattainable goal of perpetuating profits maintaining dysfunction. The dirty DEAty use violence intimidation and degradation to cleanse the loyal masses. I sincerely don't advocate violence on these liars and scum, not that I give a damn about their safety. They deserve the gallows along with Boosheney Klintoongord and their administrations torturing Ganja users either Psychologically or Physically. Including Oblamo's DNC ditto's and rehashed Klintoonians. I don't advocate violence because they have all the big guns and I hate cages. Include the Corporation clones and Banksters these elected lobbyists work for. Damn their black hearts! DdC

WAMM

Why is the DEA terrorizing sick people? We've lost 40 members this year, and that number will increase because of this raid,
~ Diana Dodson

"Yes, we still survive the DEA's raid and American injustice. We were raided Sept. 5 at 6:50 am. However, that's just a minor interference by the federal government into the lives of sick and dying people. No injustice will keep us from our work, no injustice will stop the truth."

During the Sept. 5 raid, 20 gun-toting DEA agents, led by Patrick Kelly, stormed the WAMM property, arresting a pajama-clad Corral and husband Michael before razing 130 marijuana plants to the ground with chain saws. DEA agents destroyed WAMM's 2002 crop, thus depriving the cooperative's 238 members of the medicine they use to treat AIDS, cancer, epilepsy and other fatal and highly painful disorders.

"This is an act of violence under guise of the law,"
~ Joe Wouk,
WAMM supporter said as the DEA drove away
in SUV vans and U-Haul trucks stuffed with massacred pot plants.

"56 percent of all people using illegal drugs are using marijuana. Legalizing marijuana would create a chink in the DEA's armor, a lot of budgets would go south. That's why they don't care how many sick people are hurt by this."
~ Bruce Mirken,
Medical Marijuana Policy Project communications director.

An Indictment, Not an Obituary – by Richard Cowan

Peter McWilliams, 50, best selling author, poet, photographer, publisher, libertarian crusader, medical marijuana activist, AIDS patient and cancer survivor, was found dead on the floor of his bathroom, apparently having choked to death after vomiting, for want of medical marijuana.

There will be an autopsy, but whatever the immediate cause of death may have been, he was murdered by the United States Government as surely as if they shot him.

[url=http://www.newagecitizen.co m/RainbowFarm.htm]The Rainbow Farm Massacre

For over 5 years Rainbow Farm was the location of the best Pro-Hemp Festivals in the Mid-West. The 2-3 day festivals drew crowds of Drug Reform Activists that numbered literally in the thousands. Over the Labor Day weekend (in September of 2001) over 100 Local, State and Federal agents descending onto the grounds of Rainbow Farm. In the next few days they stalked and murdered the owner, Tom Crosslin and his friend Roland Rohm.

Drug War Travesties

Eugene Siler. Cops torture him to get him to sign a consent form for their search of his place.



Why I do some of what I do
DWR: Pete Guither May 19, 2009

Whenever I take apart one of Mark Kleiman's posts -- when I take him to task for understanding the failures of prohibition, yet being unwilling to consider drug policy reform points, or being unwilling to give up his "we can make prohibition work better" philosophy -- inevitably someone asks why I bother.

This is why.

In addition to his web journalism, Mark is one of the nation's leading drug policy experts. His book Against Excess remains an essential reference. So he ought to know.

It is precisely because Kleiman is widely considered an expert, and is extremely knowledgeable, that I must hold him to account when his blind spots cause him to lose the ability for rational thought.

[Note: Kleiman's referenced post is not bad in itself this time, other than the reflexive need to find away to mention his latest idée fixe/silver bullet at the end.]

Kleiman, ConPromising is a way of life or lack thereof.
DdC

Kleiman was Les Aspins boy, Father of Don't Ask Don't Tell. Now I don't have a dog in this fight, Being a happy hetero grand pa. I've been against every "Police Action" since Nam. But its bad policy and the same fear mongers against some drugs have abused this to remove more gays than before. Even stepping up discharges under Oblamo. Klintoon busted more pot users than Nexxon, Furd, Rayguns and Boosh.

Some serving 18 years with honors, many battles fought and millions in taxes spent training them to kill. But not enough for teachers or health care. Same bad policy makers, now making drug war policy. Iraq war on lies selling Rumsfeld's Searle Pharmaceuticals and Medical supplies. Asbetos Halliburton Cheney and Boosh Dyncorps getting rich while Demowhimps bow and lick their penny loafers.

300,000 returning Iraq Vets with PTSD, another don't ask don't tell. Finding re-leafing a way to cope and forget some of the horrible scenes running through their minds each night. Go directly to jail dishonoribly booted. Flag jerkers spastically cheering these kids with their Iraq crude oil plastic rwb banners made in Asian sweatshops. Now where are these Pat Riots? The Fortune 700 club gossipers and timid donkey's making policy?

Re-hashed Klintoonians and Boosheney left overs. Vote for me and I'll set you free... Democowards and Doormats. Gitmos ok now, nimby's fear hurling teabags on each other, how weak they are. Best keep a symbol of hate and dispicible acts that go on routinly. Can't critique the spooks or old yeller journalists pop up like prairiedog heads. Super maxiepad prisons ain't good enough for so called "terrorists"? Same liars deeming them so, pretty quick, and still no 911 questions answered. So at best I'd say terror assumptions.

Wrestling a senior women with polio to the floor pointing an automatic weapon at her head for using Ganja to ease aches and pains. Thats terrorists. I think it was said after the rape by Boosheney, anythings better. One day Wallmart St's just fine, the next we're broke and now have layed off 5000 more teachers. Not a word about Enron gouging and shutting down refineries or brown outs - recalls then poof we got Aunuld. 10 new cages since Rayguns, 1 University = cheap labor.

Only thing more plentiful in government than Liars and Greed are Gringdit Hypocrites. I should burn my hemp flag so I don't feel like a traitor to the Constitution smoldering in the Oval Office and Whore House of Reprehensibles. Shove this land of sheep up your GOPerverted ass Oblamo and the Untied States of Anemica!
7.4.9 DC Convergence!
Save the Constitution - Impeach Washington!
Rants are so much better than violence...

(caution: don't "melt" plastic flags in protest...
edited from original, burning cannabis is best done internally)

One In Five High Schools Piss Taste Students 9.29.8

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Voices of faith
Record Searchlight (Redding, CA) 23 May 2009

Oh paleeeze, the one remaining vestige of humanity I thought could be trusted with truth... patooey!

"My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge; because you have rejected knowledge, I will also reject you, that you will be no priest to Me for I desired mercy and not sacrifice."
~ Hosea 4:6, 6:6

"The hardest part is just not knowing, and watching people suffer who might be significantly helped."
~ Deacon Mike Evans

How very Un-Christian is this war on some plants?

"In the later times, some shall speak lies in hypocrisy commanding to abstain from meats which God hath created to be received with thanksgiving of them which believe and know the truth."
~ Paul: 1 Timothy 1-4

“The Emperor Wears No Clothes” by Jack Herer

"I am not willing to come out in favor of prosecution for people in compliance with state law, but I will say that Christians are required by our Lord to obey all laws that do not require defiance of God's standards of behavior. Medicinal marijuana use does not qualify to excuse lawbreaking."
~ James Wilson
PrayNorthState, Redding

Faith-Based Rehabilitation

"I, for one, do not advocate the use of marijuana or any other drug that alters one's mind and ability to function as God created us. Are there good uses for pot? I believe the jury is still out on the matter."
~ Jim White, follower of Jesus Christ

Granny Storm Crow's MMJ List



'Behold, I have given you every herb bearing seed which is upon the face of all the earth.To you it will be for meat.' And God saw everything that he had made, and, behold, it was very good."
Genesis 1:29-31

Starving Babies and Illegal Food

Hemp seed protein more closely resembles that of the human body than soy; it is also easier to digest. Hemp contains a richer source of essential fatty acid oils than soy. These oils prevent heart disease and build the immune system. Hemp grain is the most nutritionally complete seed on the planet for human consumption.
~ Hempseed Nutrition by Lynn Osburn

Hempseed was used to treat nutritional deficiencies brought on by tuberculosis, a severe nutrition blocking disease that causes the body to waste away.
~ Czechoslovakia Tubercular Nutritional Study, 1955

Cannabis was traditionally used in 12 different ways: as clothing, paper, cord, sails, fishnet, oil, sealant, incense, food, and in ceremony, relaxation and medicine.
~ Chris Conrad

"On either side of the river, was there the tree of life, which bare 12 manner of fruits, and yielding her fruit every month; and the leaves of the tree were for the healing of the nations."
(Rev. 22:1-2)

Ganja/Hemp

Practical, inexpensive fire-resistant construction material, with excellent thermal and sound-insulating qualities, is made by heating and compressing plant fibers to creat strong construction paneling, replacing dry wall and plywood.has demonstrated the superior strength, flexibility, and economy of hemp composite building materials compared to wood fiber, even as beams.
~ William B. Conde of Conde's Redwood Lumber, Inc. near Eugene, Oregon, in conjunction with Washington State University (1991-1993)

Isochanvre, a rediscovered French building material made from hemp hurds mixed with lime, actually petrifies into a mineral state and lasts for many centuries. Archeologists have found a bridge in the south of France, from the Merovingian period (500-751 A.D.), built with this process.
~ Chenevotte habitat of Rene, France in Appendix I



Hemp Schedule#1 narcotic... preventing kids from stronger blue jeans and nutrition?

Eradicated Marijuana Is 98 Percent Ditchweed

Today the nationwide "marijuana" eradications, saving the kids, is comprised of 98% wild uncultivated, non psychoactive hemp, ditchweed. (burlap and canvas). Big numbers to continue this fraud since Nixon lied to Congress, rejecting his own tax paid commission stating it should be decriminalized. Nixon's lie continues to kill, criminalize and terrorize sick people. If the root is poison how can the fruit be otherwise? This pseudo religious which hunting and persecution of American citizens must stop. The herb and pesticides and chemical fertilizers not used on hemp, abort more babies than Roe V Wade. Oh ye hypocrites!

Wall street's Spontaneous Abortionists

The Elkhorn Manifesto

Mérdédinol is Synthetic Sabotage
http://www.topix.net/forum/source/uk...AGJRDDVSVN5C2O

"Smoking it is clearly harmful to the lungs, but a pill form is available medicinally. Perhaps the pill form is not available more widely because the drug companies cannot patent it."
~ Rev. Judith Churchman

Bong Rips Cure Cancer? By Alex Hoffman



American Amnesia By Noam Chomsky
Tomdispatch.com May 20, 2009

We Forget Our Atrocities Almost As Soon as We Commit Them

Historical amnesia is a dangerous social phenomenon because it lays the groundwork for crimes that still lie ahead.

Pressure Mounts on Minnesota Governor to Seat Al Franken
By Sam Stein, Huffington Post

Two-thirds of Minnesotans now "believe it's time for [Coleman] to concede."

S.1959
The Violent Radicalization and Homegrown Terrorism Prevention Act

Title: A bill to establish the National Commission on the Prevention of Violent Radicalization and Homegrown Terrorism, and for other purposes.
Sponsor: Sen Collins, Susan M. [ME] (introduced 8/2/2007) Cosponsors (1) Sen. Norm Coleman [R-MN]

Compare Language in “Hitler’s Laws”
with Pending U.S. Senate Bill S.1959
by Dan Scott Thursday, Jun. 05, 2008



Making War On Free Speech!
S. 486/H.R. 2987 Passes 06/10/00

Bush Cabal Hides Patriot II Police State in HR2417 12/22/03

Internet Free Speech Goes on Trial 07/14/01

Meth Bill/Free Speech by Richard Lake 06/11/00

Bong Hits 4 Jesus

Thought Crimes,' HR 1955 Passed With 404 Votes'

"Make no laws whatever concerning speech, and speech will be free; so soon as you make a declaration on paper that speech shall be free, you will have a hundred lawyers proving that "freedom does not mean abuse, nor liberty license"; and they will define and define freedom out of existence."
--Voltarine de Cleyre



Minnesota’s Heartless Governor
Tim Pawlenty, Minnesota’s Republican governor has “great empathy for the sick.” I know it’s true because he said so. He just thinks they belong in jail if they need medical marijuana. He announced his intention to veto the medical marijuana bill at his news conference today. Then, amazingly, he went on to wax rhapsodic about [...]

Minn. governor vetos medical marijuana bill
[i]Rob Kampia Executive Director
Marijuana Policy Project Washington, D.C.

DdC

Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty (R) today vetoed the medical marijuana bill just passed by the Minnesota Legislature.

MPP has been lobbying in Minnesota for five years, pushing our medical marijuana bill closer and closer to passing. The Senate passed our bill on May 4, and on Monday, the House followed suit … the first time a medical marijuana bill has been debated on the floor of the Minnesota House in history.

However, because the governor had been threatening a veto, the House narrowed the scope of the bill, hoping to find common ground with the governor and start protecting Minnesota's patients from arrest and jail. The final version of the bill was watered down beyond what any medical marijuana advocates wanted to see — in its ultimate version protecting only terminally ill patients.

And yet disgustingly, the governor still vetoed it, while simultaneously claiming that he “has great empathy for the sick” … the same sick and dying people he has now sentenced to arrest and jail.

Disgusted? Me too.

It's not going to end here. Every recent poll shows that Minnesotans support medical marijuana by a 2-to-1 margin, and if the governor won't listen to them, we can bypass him entirely. In Minnesota, constitutional amendments bypass the governor and are instead ratified by voters after passing the legislature. We can lobby next year to pass a constitutional amendment for a comprehensive medical marijuana law that would appear on the state's November 2010 ballot. continued...[/i]

Good News/Bad News From Minnesota



Why Do Christians Worship Greed?
By Peter Laarman, Religion Dispatches
Only in America can one find significant numbers of Christians who argue that unfettered capitalism represents God's Plan for human thriving.

Another Viewpoint On Drugs

A Creative Solution To Drug War

Ethan Nadelmann on Arnold's Brave Call for a Pot Debate



Once Secret Nixon Tapes Show Why the US Outlawed Pot

Nixon lied to schedule Ganja #1

"You're enough of a pro," Nixon tells Shafer, "to know that for you to come out with something that would run counter to what the Congress feels and what the country feels, and what we're planning to do, would make your commission just look bad as hell."
- Richard Milhouse Nixon

"Marijuana does not lead to physical dependency, although some evidence indicates that the heavy, long-term users may develop a psychological dependence on the drug"
~ The Shafer Commission of 1970

US Government Patents Medical Pot



872,721 marijuana arrests in 2007 Inhaling or Not

"If it is illegal, then violators of the law should be prosecuted. Laws that are on the books, but are not prosecuted, are senseless and confusing. ( They ) should either be prosecuted when they are violated or they should be removed from the books."
~ Rev. Gene Crow, pastor

'Relax Your Muscles as Much as Possible'

What's life like in our prisons for those marijuana convicts? Let's steel our nerves and go visit the Web site where the Los Angeles outfit "Stop Prisoner Rape" has posted the little plain-talking handbill it has prepared for young men entering our prison system, titled "For Prisoners: Advice on Avoiding HIV/AIDS."

"The Lord hath sent me to bind up the broken hearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives and the opening of the prison to them that are bound."
(Isaiah 61:1)

November Coalition

"The horrors experienced by many young inmates, particularly those who are convicted of nonviolent offenses, border on the unimaginable. Prison rape not only threatens the lives of those who fall prey to their aggressors, but it is potentially devastating to the human spirit. Shame, depression, and a shattering loss of self-esteem accompany the perpetual terror the victim thereafter must endure."
U.S. Supreme Court Justice Harry A. Blackmun, Farmer v. Brennan



“Why would we evolve a chemical that would make us forget, that would affect our short-term memory?” That seems maladaptive. His answer was one of the great “a-ha!” moments I had when I was working on this book. He said, “Well, do you really want to remember all the faces you saw in the subway this morning, all the faces in the supermarket?” And I realized at that moment, well, of course, forgetting is not a defect of a mental operation, although it can certainly be that; forgetting is a mental operation. It’s almost as important as remembering."
~ Michael Pollan,
Cannabis, the Importance of Forgetting

Many Veterans are the Enemy of the D.E.A.th War

"As a sufferer of multiple sclerosis since 1999, I use medical marijuana to ease my painful spasms. Marijuana allows me to function normally instead of having to endure the debilitating side effects and mental fogginess that I found accompanied opiate-based painkillers. I strongly endorse the mission of Veterans for Medical Marijuana Access."
~ Montel Williams

"This one is personal for me. I have a beloved family member with post-traumatic stress syndrome who relies on his prescription for medicinal marijuana. I can only report that from his perspective and from my personal observation: Marijuana seems to work better for him than what he had prescribed for him previously."
~ Rev. Sandra Soley Keep

300000 Iraq & Afghan Vets Suffer PTSD & Depression
Ganja 4 PTSD & Depression

Sam Stone came home, To his wife and family After serving in the conflict overseas. And the time that he served, Had shattered all his nerves, And left a little shrapnel in his knee. But the morphine eased the pain, And the grass grew round his brain, And gave him all the confidence he lacked, With a Purple Heart and a monkey on his back... There's a hole in daddy's arm where all the money goes...
~ John Prine



I really find it hard to believe they're actually that stupid. The people are willing to "believe" and have "faith" in the drug worriers. But eventually even they have to ask WTF? Using the same myths over generations with never an actual victim? Future soothsayings and predictions that never pan out. Yesterdays reefer madness is todays gotcha! So Santa Claus beat up the Easter Bunny and Spiderman kicked his ass. Archeology discovered traces of hashish in the ancient temple incense. Did Jesus inhale? Did St Paul spread the word on ships with canvas sails? Who grew it? The Sythians?

Money makes the WoD go round. Think of the message to the kids parents when their kid is sacrificed as a snitch. The Virtues' of Ganja compared to the dangers of legal substances puts kids at risk. This is basically a states rights, Conservative issue, not a Neocon or big government liberals. The anti choice should be up in arms over Ganjawar's Spontaneous Abortionists if they actually practice what the preach.

Against gay marriage, but all for prison sodomy? 'Relax Your Muscles as Much as Possible' Besides a cash crop for farmers removing Hemp from the mix. The Military has found it useful for PTSD while the returning vets are told to suck it up and not deal with it. Capitalists making an honest buck growing and processing Ganja and Hemp vs the Fascism of corporate interest and elected government (lobbyists) lying to keep it prohibited. Well drug thug worriers and their massa DEAth Merchants. The line it is drawn, the curse it is cast. The slow one now
will later be fast. As the present now will later be past. The order is
Rapidly fadin'. And the first one now will later be last.
For the times they are a-changin'. DdC

"Narcotics police are an enormous, corrupt international bureaucracy ... and now fund a coterie of researchers who provide them with 'scientific support' ... fanatics who distort the legitimate research of others. ... The anti-marijuana campaign is a cancerous tissue of lies, undermining law enforcement, aggravating the drug problem, depriving the sick of needed help, and suckering well-intentioned conservatives and countless frightened parents."
-- William F. Buckley,
Commentary in The National Review, April 29, 1983, p. 495

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San Diego Operation Green Rx - Eugene Davidovich
June 8th, 2009 - 8:15 AM - Department 11
San Diego Superior Court - 220 W. Broadway San Diego, CA 92101

My name is Eugene Davidovich and I have been a resident of San Diego for over 20 years. I am a medical cannabis patient and operated a non profit collective here in San Diego until last February when my house was raided and I arrested in ‘Operation Green Rx’ later announced by the District Attorney in a press conference as ‘Operation Endless Summer’.

In this operation a local San Diego Police Detective lied to his doctor about his identity and condition, obtained a valid recommendation for medical marijuana and joined the majority of the medical collectives and coops listed on the San Diego section of the CA NORML list.
The detective called me and joined the collective. While pretending to be a sick patient, he requested that I deliver medical cannabis to him. Having seen him once and provided him with a ? ounce of medical cannabis, I am now facing 4 felony charges, $65,000 bail, and permanent damage to my professional and personal life.
This was a clear and direct attempt to shut down all non profit medical marijuana collective cultivation/distribution efforts in San Diego.


Eugene Davidovich

Please join me in the struggle for patients' rights to collectively cultivate medication by supporting me in court on June 8th.

For more details and to see the video of the delivery of medicine to the under cover officer please visit

Where is Jerry Brownose? Long before Oblamo's ambiguous riddle. Brown should have been enforcing prop 215. Instead of tweaking it for private enterprise. Scam DEAgo has been breaking the law and instigating other counties to join in insulting the voters of California. The Compassionate Use Act is clear enough, and yet thousands sit in cages because of reefer mad crusaders, Nixon lied and that is enough to remove Ganja from schedule#1. Nixon lumped medicinal and hemp, not included in the Un-Constitutional Reefer Madness Act of 1937 ie: Leary v. United States Marihuana Tax Act violated his privilege against self-incrimination. Enough of these tax paid renegades. We the People tell Them the Elected, not reversed, as we seem to ConPromise with DEAth lies. Appeasing the cheats and liars for their version of paving freeways to hell with greed intentions, camouflaged as "for the kids". Power Junkies and DEAth Merchants. Tax paid Universal soldiers and sailors following orders. Where's Aunuld?



The Tyranny of San Diego’s Operation GreenRX
If the Police Chief can attack legal protected patients, as he is doing in Operation GreenRX; if the District Attorney‘s office can tell a judge that they have arbitrary and tyrannically decided that San Diego’s ordinances and laws are invalid [which they did at the preliminary trial of Donna Lambert] without ever informing the City Council or using the legal process to go to a Superior Court or a Federal judge to get them overturned: then we have moved ever closer to an Orwellian state. continued...


Eugene Davidovich Public Comment at the San Diego City Council Meeting about Operation Green Rx, and need for task force to address medical marijuana issues in San Diego.


November 13, 2008, after a patient joins a collective in San Diego over the phone, Eugene Davidovich meets with patient to verify documentation and deliver medication.

Scam DEAgo Dispensary Pilaged 2-22-2005

It's 'Warfare' Medi-Pot Activists are Mad as Hell By David Rolland
Source: San Diego, CA City Beat December 14, 2005

Supreme Court action upholds California's medical pot law By David G. Savage

San D.E.A.go Soups To Appeal Prop. 215 Ruling



Drug Czar's Pot-Potency Claims Go Up In Smoke By Ryan Grim
CN Source: Huffington Post May 29, 2009 Washington, D.C.
A newly released report about marijuana potency undermines previous claims by the Office of National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP) that the drug's potency has hit record highs. In May, the media ran wild with stories of highly potent pot sweeping the nation, as the ONDCP announced that their testing showed average marijuana potency had topped 10 percent THC-level for the first time ever. THC is the active ingredient in marijuana. Read More...

There's No Such Thing as a 'Gateway Drug' By Scott Morgan
CN Source: AlterNet May 29, 2009 USA (scroll up for article)

The surging debate surrounding the legalization of marijuana has brought with it the resurrection of the "gateway theory," which alleges that experimenting with marijuana leads to the use of harder drugs like cocaine, heroin and methamphetamine. The gateway debate was reborn last week, thanks to a video of FBI director Robert Mueller testifying before Congress that marijuana should be illegal because it leads to more dangerous drug use. Read More...

The (F)Utility of DAWN DWR comments

3 Myths About Marijuana By Rob Kampia
CN Source: Star-Tribune May 24, 2009 USA
Our nation is having the most intense debate about our marijuana laws in more a generation -- one that Minnesotans recently saw play out in full force as legislators and Gov. Tim Pawlenty debated medical marijuana. As one who has pushed for just such a debate, I'm delighted, but as I and other Marijuana Policy Project staffers have engaged with journalists and policymakers lately, it's become clear that this debate is being hobbled by a series of myths.



Incredibly brave stoner fights for his LIGHTS By CHARLIE BERMANT
Port Orchard Independent Staff Writer May 21 2009

Medical pot patient wants his stuff back
Port Orchard Independent
A medical marijuana patient who was recently found not guilty of criminal charges returned the Kitsap County Courthouse on Tuesday to reclaim confiscated property, but several large greenhouse items were not returned.

What’s the worst that could happen? Marijuana is legalized
THE UW DAILY By Jackson Rohrbaugh May 28, 2009
Does marijuana have a shot at being legalized? If weed was suddenly made legal, there would be parties in the streets and green banners hung from windows and rafters everywhere in Seattle.

Kitsap prosecutor drops medical pot charges
Medical pot trial draws activists to Kitsap
Kitsap medical marijuana defendant acquitted
Medical marijuana use lands locals in court

What about the economy? Can't pay teachers...
but oh they can just throw it at stoners and hope something sticks. Terrorizing citizens on the tax payers dime and most of the tax payers don't even wwant them too. Pitiful...



Reason magazine THE PRESIDENT LOOSES HIS COOL
Matt Welch | June 2009

With his glib dismissal of pot legalization, the president looks less like the man, and more like The Man.

WHEN THE GENERATION of Americans under the age of 30 gets around to realizing that this handsome young president might not be nearly as cool as they'd hoped, it won't be hard to affix a date on when the milk began to sour. It was March 26, 2009, when Barack Obama conducted a Uve town hall press conference featuring questions submitted online.

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Of all tyrannies,
a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims
may be the most oppressive.
~ C.S. Lewis,
"The Humanitarian Theory of Punishment,"
an essay from "God In The Dock"

Marijuana grower loses to robbers, then police.
McClatchy - Tribune Business News May 27

A Wallingford resident who operates a medical-marijuana-growing site for himself and other ill patients saw his crop of drugs raided twice Tuesday -- once by police.


A Seattle police officer leaves a home Tuesday in Wallingford, where four robbers earlier had burst into a medical-marijuana-growing operation. Polices say the number of plants in the operation greatly exceeded state guidelines.

Marijuana proponents urge colleges to mellow out
By RICK CALLAHAN The Associated Press May 16, 2009
Marijuana advocates who say pot is safer than alcohol want colleges to wade into a hazy debate over whether schools' tough pot penalties are actually worsening their drinking woes.

Safer Colorado

Tequila
Listen to this highly amusing satirical ad (MP3) touting the "benefits" of tequila. (Make sure you listen to the disclaimers at the end.)



US GA: OPED: It's Time This Drug 'War' Ended
Barr, Bob Atlanta Journal-Constitution 25 May 2009
Even though the administration of President Obama has championed "change" as its hallmark, many of its domestic policy and funding programs reflect more a "continuation" of the big spending ways of his predecessor. However, in the area of drug control policy, early signs are that Obama is serious about charting a new course - and a better one.

CN BC: Treatment Centre Plans Up In Flames
Steele, Amy Abbotsford Times 26 May 2009
Former Maple Ridge Mayor Gord Robson's dream of an alcohol and drug treatment centre at Boulder Bay has been literally burned to the ground. The District of Mission, which owns the property, allowed its district and provincial firefighters to burn the buildings down in training exercises. Dennis Clark, director of corporate administration for the District of Mission, said the district decided destroying the buildings was the best course of action after the proposal to turn Boulder Bay into a treatment centre was withdrawn in January. Robson said it was withdrawn because the Mission district wanted to control who was on the board of directors of the non-profit organization. However, he had hoped they could still work something out.



US CA: Owner Of Cannabis Clinic Reaches Out To Community
Abbott, David Sonoma West Times & News 27 May 2009
Jacob's approach to his business focuses on the importance of local support and the belief in patient access to alternative medicine, information and education in a safe environment. He sees PIM as a model for facilities implementing the legal dispensation of medical cannabis in compliance with Prop. 215 -- the Compassionate Use Act of 1996, approved by 55 percent of the voters -- where "customers are treated like the patients they are."

Canada: New Medical Pot Rule A Bummer, Advocates Say
Montreal Gazette 27 May 2009
Federal Court Justice Barry Strayer ruled in January 2008 that the one-to-one restriction is "arbitrary," not "rationally related to legitimate state interests" and violates the principles of fundamental justice.

US HI: Decision Delayed On Drug Dogs, Searches At Hawaii
Moreno, Loren Honolulu Advertiser 27 May 2009
The state Board of Education last night postponed a decision on controversial amendments to the public school system's disciplinary rules -- including changes that would allow for student locker searches and drug-sniffing dogs.

US CA: Edu: Column: Fight The Power, Ignore The Police
Nightingale, Jonathan Daily Nexus 27 May 2009

US CA: Column: Welter of Confusion Continues Over Medipot
Elias, Thomas The Pasadena Star-News 26 May 2009
Federal prosecutions of medipot providers arrested while George W. Bush was president continue. Inconsistencies in what's legal persist from one county to the next. While some officials in big cities and urban counties advocate municipal sales of pot to keep prices down and make sure clinics operate within the law, their counterparts in other places continue banning medipot altogether.



Pot Fight on Ballot? That's Their Plan By Jason Hoppin
CN Source: Pioneer Press May 28, 2009 Minnesota
Medical marijuana supporters, who finally pushed legislation onto the governor's desk in Minnesota only to see the bill vetoed, are preparing for an even bigger task next year: ensuring the right of the sick and dying to smoke marijuana by writing it into the state's constitution. Bypassing Gov. Tim Pawlenty and putting the question straight to voters is no easy chore. Supporters of last year's Clean Water, Land and Legacy Amendment spent nearly $4 million to get the measure passed. Yet, medical marijuana backers say they're willing to foot the bill.

Medical Marijuana Pilot Gets OK From State Senate
By Monique Garcia and Rick Pearson
CN Source: Chicago Tribune Springfield May 27, 2009
The Illinois Senate narrowly approved a bill Wednesday that would allow doctors to prescribe marijuana to treat seriously ill patients, though the proposal faces an uncertain future in the House as lawmakers scramble to meet their end-of-month deadline. The 30-28 Senate vote split largely along partisan lines. Supporters said it marked the furthest the idea has gotten after several defeats.

MMJ Legislation Narrowly Passes Illinois Senate

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State Senator Proposes Medical Marijuana Bill By Doug Denison
CN Source: Dover Post May 27, 2009 Dover, Del.
Delaware soon could be the 14th state in the nation to allow its citizens to possess and use marijuana for medical purposes, if a bill introduced May 27 in the state Senate is passed.

Del. Senate Bill Would Legalize Medical Marijuana

Medical marijuana passes Illinois Senate;
head of drug task force thinks it's a bad idea
Wednesday, May 27, 2009

Senate approves medical marijuana bill, sends it to House

A measure legalizing medical marijuana finally made it through the state Senate on Wednesday, but a major hurdle remains before it can become Illinois law.

The Senate voted 30-28 for Senate Bill 1381, giving the measure right at the 30 'yes' votes needed to pass. The measure would allow doctors to prescribe cannabis to patients with diseases like AIDS and glaucoma. [...]

The measure now heads to the House. At a statehouse press conference earlier in the year, Rep. Lou Lang said he was unsure how far any medical marijuana measure would get in the House.

Nice quote in the debate from Sen. Mike Jacobs (D-East Moline)

"Do you find it at all interesting that people view drugs made by man as better than drugs made by God?" Jacobs said during debate. "This is something that someone can drop in their backyard and find relief from, and there's some of us in this chamber that would prefer Oxycontin, morphine; would prefer mommy's little helper, uppers, downers, all-arounders."

Elsewhere in the news, John Binny, commander of the State Line Area Narcotics Team, a law enforcement organization serving Stephenson, Jo Daviess and other counties in northwest Illinois and southwest Wisconsin, lectures readers about medical issues, scientific research, the proper way to conduct agricultural activities, and, apparently, logic. Logic Eliminates Medical Marijuana

With such a range of expertise, it's hard to know how he found time to learn how to be a policeman. Pete Guither, DWR

Democratic State Party passes resolution calling for legalization of marijuana.

The Democratic Party Committee Abroad, otherwise known as Democrats Abroad, passed a resolution on April 25 recommending the legalization of marijuana in all 50 states.

The news appears to have gone completely unnoticed by all mainstream outlets.

The Democrats Abroad are considered a state party by the Democratic National Committee, which affords them eight elected, voting members. They help U.S. citizens who are traveling and living outside the United States cast ballots in national elections. continued...

The AP continues to write articles with the main point missing

There are a number of versions of this AP article by David Crary article in the papers today around the country, but all of them seem to have the same defect.

They talk about American appetites for drugs, Mexican cartels profiting, and even about supply and demand, but never once mention prohibition as a factor. continued...

Supreme Court gets one right
Tuesday, May 26, 2009
ABUELHAWA v. UNITED STATES
In this case, the defendant purchased a misdemeanor amount of drugs and was arrested. But then the prosecutors decided to pile on -- since he had used a cell phone to contact the seller, they charged him with facilitating the sale (a felony). That's right, they charged him with facilitating his own purchase. continued...



Sonia Sotomayor is to be nominated to replace Justice Souter on the Supreme Court.

Fighting for the Right to Chew Coca
Monday, May 25, 2009

Like any independent country should have to fight for that right...

Time Magazine has a pretty good article about the battle between the INCB/UN/US and the Andean nations who have used a natural and healthful plant for thousands of years -- coca.

Coca, Bolivia, and Law 1008



Oh, the horror. Look what happens when you decriminalize marijuana!

Complaining About Those Who Complain About Marijuana

Marijuana has actually been decriminalized to the perfect degree. It's still illegal enough so the government can't regulate and dilute its potency while charging way too much money for it, and it's legal enough for us to be able to smoke it pretty much whenever and wherever we choose, with little to no consequences.

So I say, "If it ain't broke, don't fix it." Unless you hippies are out there every year fighting for the right to worse and more expensive pot, then you should take a step back to think about what you're actually doing.

Now, don't get me wrong. I see where you are coming from ideologically speaking. I agree that, in theory, it seems unjust that a harmless plant like marijuana should be illegal to consume while dangerous drugs like Viagra ( which give boners to old men ) are not only legal, but are advertised and promoted on national television.

I know I'd personally rather live in a society with a bunch of lethargic people eating ketchup chips than with a bunch of horny gyrating old men, but I think when it comes to political protest, we should all look at the bigger picture and choose our battles more carefully.

Because if we don't we might get what you dirty hippies seem to keep asking for: expensive shitty weed that you can only buy on weekdays before 9:30 at night.

Editors' Roundtable: Fighting Meth

MINIMUM SENTENCING WON'T WORK

After 35 years of experience with mandatory minimum sentences for drug crimes, Americans are beginning to abandon this discredited approach. Yet Stephen Harper's Conservative government now wants to saddle Canadians with these expensive and ineffective laws.

NDLEA CARTEL: 62 INDICTED OFFICIALS STILL IN SERVICE

There are fresh indications that the authorities of the Nigeria Drug Law Enforcement Agency may have shielded the members of a powerful jail-evasion cartel in the agency from punishment, contrary to the recommendations of the Justice Gilbert Obayan ( rtd ) National Committee for Reform of the NDLEA.

Rather than retire the original 71 officials of the agency indicted by the committee, investigations by Saturday Punch showed that only nine had been retired while the NDLEA sacrificed the career of 62 other innocent officers to make up the number, thereby shielding members of the cartel.

The cover-up was said to have been done to stop the powerful cartel from executing its alleged threat to expose some former and serving top-level management personnel who had aided its illegal activities.

Pro-, Anti-Marijuana Forces Cite Their Studies

LOCAL POLITICIAN PUSHING FOR FREE CRACKPIPES

Medical Pot Users Need More Than Doctor's Note

Almost 2,000 people have applied to use and grow medical marijuana in Michigan, and roughly half fall in a legal black hole where they have letters recommending its use but not the state-issued cards that make it legal.

Hash Bash in Michigan June 30 1999
The Ann Arbor Hash Bash started in 1972 as a way to celebrate the change in Michigan's pot law from a felony to a misdemeanor. The spirit of marijuana tolerance was strong in Michigan at this time.


The first Hash Bash, 1971
Photo by David Knapp

ATTENTION PAST HASH BASH ATTENDEES!
We are putting an archives together that will become a permanent part of the University of Michigan. If you have old posters, photos, recordings, handouts, or anything else you would like to see in the archives please call Adam Brook at 313-999-0329, or click here to send him an email. You can donate anonymously or have you name added to the list of contributors, your choice.

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Now that's a persuasive speech Link

At the end of his speech Tuesday urging legalization of marijuana, a 17-year-old Peninsula High School student pulled out a joint, lit it and smoked away. Then he ate the remains.

For that he got a quick escort to the school office and then a ride to Remann Hall juvenile jail.

The stunt was celebrated among some of the teen's peers but was frowned on to say the least by law enforcement officers and district administrators.

"We believe in freedom of speech and encourage it, but illegal activities are absolutely not going to be tolerated in our district," schools Superintendent Terry Bouck said.

Pierce County sheriff's spokesman Ed Troyer said, "If people want that law changed, they need to go about it the right way."

He did admit, though, that the student's action will prompt discussion.

"It sure will probably bring a lot of attention to the issue," Troyer said.

So what is the right way to go about changing the law, Mr. Troyer?

The student has not been charged with a crime -- probably due to the lack of evidence.



"In a republic like ours, people often think that the proper response to an unjust law is to try to use the political process to change the law, but to obey and respect the law until it is changed. But if the law is itself clearly unjust, and the lawmaking process is not designed to quickly obliterate such unjust laws, then the law deserves no respect — break the law."
- Henry David Thoreau

NeverGetBusted Tip: Swallow Your Stash
Never carry more than you can eat.
Upon being stopped by the kops,
simply chase the small stash down with a waiting beverage.



KopBusters: Exposing Police Corruption
Jun 6 2009 CANNABIS CULTURE
An exclusive look inside KopBusters,
the reality TV show exposing corrupt cops,
by ex-narcotics agent turned activist Barry Cooper.

Judge arranges sterilization
as part of Charleston woman's probation
By Andrew Clevenger CHARLESTON, W.Va. June 1, 2009
A Charleston woman agreed in Kanawha Circuit Court Monday to a judge's suggestion that she have her fallopian tubes tied as part of her probation. Jessica Michelle Butterworth, 21, pleaded guilty to possession with intent to distribute marijuana on March 23. At her sentencing hearing, Judge L.D. Egnor suspended a one- to five-year prison sentence in favor of five years of probation.

"In a civilised society, it is the duty of all citizens to obey just laws.
But at the same time it is the duty of all citizens to disobey unjust laws."
~ Martin Luther King Jr

This is the work of Release in the UK. Transform has more on this.



NETHERLANDS CLOSING PRISONS FOR 'LACK OF CRIMINALS'

Look what happens when you decriminalize marijuana!
The Dutch Justice Ministry reports it was forced to close down eight prisons, which will result in some 1,200 penal system staff members being laid off.

Europe: Dutch Plan to Reduce Amsterdam Coffee Shop Numbers in Bid to Clean Up City Center
Europe: Danish Court Says Christiania Residents Have No Right to It

Besieged hippies prepare to make war - not love 12/29/03
Going Dutch
Dutch Conservatives Crack Down on Coffee Shops
MJ Shops in Dutch City To Demand Fingerprints

"Individuals have international duties
which transcend the national obligations of obedience ...
Therefore individual citizens have the duty to violate domestic laws
to prevent crimes against peace and humanity from occurring."
Nuremberg War Crimes Tribunal, 1950



MEDICAL USER QUESTIONS COLUMN
I'm responding to the not-so-thoughtful oped from John Biffany

CANNABIS PRODUCTION MUST BE WEEDED OUT AND PUT IN SAFER HANDS
A large number of decent and otherwise law-abiding Scottish citizens consume cannabis. Lots more would do so if it were not illegal. It seems illogical that so much police time and legal system resources should be devoted to its prohibition. It seems illogical that the provision of this popular recreational drug should be left to people perceived as criminals. Allegedly.

YET ANOTHER MORATORIUM: PLANNING WOULD NIP THIS
Last Tuesday, the City Council enacted a temporary prohibition on medical marijuana dispensaries, saying staff needed time to research and analyze the issue, consult with the city attorney and prepare a study. A dispensary, the council was told, would conflict with the city's general plan and zoning ordinances.

LOCAL ANTI DRUG INITIATIVES
INCLUDE EDUCATION ON SUBSTANCE ABUSE
In December of 2005 the Province of British Columbia offered up to $10.000 to communities under the Methamphetamine Response funding program. The Village of Keremeos took this opportunity together with the support of our first Nations Bands and the Regional District and formed the South Similkameen Anti Crystal Meth Initiative.

Ice: The new menace and horror to society

Hippies condemned speed in 1967 and no one listened. Any time over zealous or profiteers get all hysterical I find its time for a closer look at their motives. "Meth" is a dangerous substance to be sure, but according to the US DEA it is not as dangerous as Hemp clothing. A schedule #1 narcotic while "meth " is #2.

I guess the Military doesn't agree with the assessment of your anti group either. Giving go go pills to pilots. Oh ya several Canadians became collateral damage by them. Army, Navy and Marines all getting white powder crank. Eek, college students since its invention have been cramming for midterms popping white crosses.

Like your fresh veggies? What about the all night truckers staying alert with coast to coast turnarounds, black beauties and dexies. Doctors doing 36 hour shifts, and cops on stake outs. Then the money made in the fashion industry, keeping those models pencil thin on diet pills of "meth".

Mothers lil pick me ups and ADD and prozak and bennies and amphetimines. The capitalist way of life forces blue collar workers to work 2 shifts, smoking a boat, killing his organs, teeth and brain cells, its the American dream.

Demonizing dysfunction drives it into the shadows. Stop the gossip, its a pharmaceutical. Pay a living wage and get real about the substances and the drug problem cures itself. Not good for the vested ignorant making millions on urine test and prison supply. "Hypocrites" is too often used. Accurate but getting repetitive.
Wake up and help your citizens, not terrorize them.

Jacob Sullum dismantles the Birth of a Cocaine Factoid -- the supposed 5,000 cocaine deaths in 1912 -- a figure often used to show how much better off we are with prohibition.

"There are 100,000 total marijuana smokers in the US,
and most are Negroes, Hispanics, Filipinos and entertainers.
Their Satanic music, jazz and swing, result from marijuana usage.
This marijuana causes white women to seek sexual relations
with Negroes, entertainers and any others."
~ Harry Anslinger, U.S. Commissioner of Narcotics,
testifying to Congress on why marijuana should be made illegal, Marijuana Tax Act, signed Aug. 2, 1937; effective Oct. 1,1937

Getting to know the new drug czar memes (and lies)
After 7+ years of John Walters, it's been interesting to see what difference would come (in rhetoric, if nothing else) with a new drug czar. Kerlikowske hasn't been on board that long, but some sense of the changes in emphasis are starting to show up.

Deconstructing the Drug Czar's latest pot and mental illness claims

Drugwar Lies Linked to Schizophrenia
Is The Drug Czar Lying? His Lips Are Moving
Self Perpetuating Lies
Nixon lied to schedule Ganja #1

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What Do You Know
The Ex-Drug Czar Is Still Full Of S—-t!
By: Paul Armentano, NORML Deputy Director 07 May 2009

How The Canadian Media
Import Counterfeit News From The States.
The Drug Czar Lies and Even The Best Papers Don’t Check the Facts.
Posted by Richard Cowan on 2005-03-17 16:20:00
“But it is time to acknowledge that the nation's news organizations have played a large and unappetizing role in deceiving the public….”
~ The New York Times

Front Page Fantasy:
The New York Times Pushes Fact Free Journalism
Supposedly About “BC Bud”
Posted by Richard Cowan on 2005-03-17 16:20:00
This article was cited in the Canadian Parliament as proof that Canada cannot even decriminalize cannabis because of US opposition, “causing costly cross-border delays.” Lies have consequences, which is why people lie.

Bad research makes headlines

Ryan Grim at Huffington Post: Drug Czar's Pot-Potency Claims Go Up In Smoke. Turns out the media didn't examine that report very closely before reporting on it. Gee, what a surprise.

Pot Potency? Waldo Smoked Schwag!
The Counterculture Colonel



Scott Morgan rips into the "Marinol doesn't get you high" lie: If Pure THC Pills are FDA-Approved,
What's the Big Deal About Marijuana Potency?

We're actually supposed to be intrigued and perhaps alarmed by the fact that domestic marijuana potency now averages 10% THC, meanwhile the FDA has long approved a 100% THC pill that's proven to be completely safe in every way, except that some people think it's a little too strong and want weed instead. It's amazing the lengths some people will take to rationalize the mindless paradox of arresting medical marijuana patients while simultaneously trying to sell them potent THC pills.

Mérdéinol is Synthetic Sabotage



NYCLU stands up for students

The New York Civil Liberties Union has called on the Red Creek Central School District in upstate New York to publicly apologize to high school students subjected to illegal, humiliating and invasive searches by state police and school officials.

Help Save Canadian Activist and Hero, Marc Emery!
Feb 2 2009
Marc Emery has been fighting extradition for years, but legal arguments cannot be made to prevent the extradition from happening -- and the Conservative Justice Minister, Rob Nicholson, will sign Marc off with glee. Marc would face Mandatory Minimum prison sentences of at least ten years in Washington state if that happened, so he is negotiating for a shorter sentence on one charge without the mandatory minimums. He will need supporters to petition for his transfer to Canadian prison, so keep informed by watching CannabisCulture.com for news!

Yes, The Case Against Marc Emery is Political
Jun 6 2009
In case anyone forgot, the U.S. Dept. of Justice is still trying to extradite famous Canadian marijuana activist Marc Emery for selling marijuana seeds to American customers. But they want everyone to know that the case has nothing to do with his political views.



'Prince of Pot' Documentary Film on TV and DVD

Canada's 'Prince of Pot' at war with US drug war.

Emery smiled, unrepentant.

"I had a very good reason for selling those seeds," he said. "I wanted to defeat the U.S. war on drugs."

Listen to Marc Emery, Eddy Lepp and Ed Rosenthal discuss prison on "Time 4 Hemp"

FREE EDDY LEPP!
Fed Jury Slaps Guru of Ganja With New Pot Charges

Paulo's UK Overgrow!!! by Ed Rosenthal

Mandatory Mins May 5 2009
A Message to Canada: Don't Repeat Mistakes of U.S. 'War on Drugs'
Mandatory minimum sentences are not the answer to Canada's drug and crime problems.

Families Against Mandatory Minimums

"In a civilised society, it is the duty of all citizens to obey just laws.
But at the same time it is the duty of all citizens to disobey unjust laws."
- Martin Luther King Jr.



DrugSense Weekly

Drug War Chronicle - Issue #587 - 5/29/09

# Feature: Effort to Bring Safe Injection Facility to New York City Getting Underway
# Feature: Health Canada Adjusts Medical Marijuana Program, Doubles Number of People Providers Can Grow For
-- From One to Two
# Medical Marijuana: Bill Passes Illinois Senate, Heads to House
# Medical Marijuana: New York Bill Wins Senate Committee Vote
# Public Opinion: Rasmussen Poll Finds 41% Favor Legalizing and Taxing Marijuana
# Latin America: Attacks Made on Candidates from Mexican Party That Favors Drug Legalization

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Please: Don't Shoot!

Law Enforcement: This Week's Corrupt Cops Stories

Supreme Court Holds
Drug Purchasers Can't Be Charged With "Facilitation"
Felonies for Calling Drug Dealers

PRO-POT GROUP'S PROTEST IRKS PARENTS
Members of the pro-marijuana legalization group Calgary 420 protested outside Forest Lawn high school, advocating pot is not a harmful drug. Leader Keith Fagin said police are misleading youth about marijuana by discussing it alongside hard drugs, such as cocaine and heroin. "I want to get them to stop telling them that marijuana is a gateway drug and that it's stronger in this generation," said Fagin. "You can't smoke enough cannabis to kill you -- they are not telling people about how alcohol is a hard, nasty drug."



MMJ Bill To Appear Before NJ Assembly Committee

Time is Right To Legalize Medical Marijuana

Medical Marijuana is a Necessary Compassion

US IL: Medical Marijuana Pilot Gets OK From State Senate
Garcia, Monique Chicago Tribune 28 May 2009

US CA: Ukiah Attorney Killed In Plane Crash
Anderson, Glenda The Press Democrat 30 May 2009
She currently was litigating a medical marijuana case in federal court on behalf of an East Bay marijuana cooperative.

CN BC: Column: Council Should Support Patients
Mattei, Mona Grand Forks Gazette 27 May 2009
Grand Forks city council said that they do not feel it is the responsibility of municipal governments to push for change in the laws governing medical marijuana in Canada and our province on May 11.



New Biologically Active Compounds From Cannabis
Scientists have isolated and identified nine new cannabinoids that have antifungal, anibacterial, and a variety of other biological activities.

On the Road to Mandatory Minimums in Canada:
Bill C-15 Passes Committee



Kristof Asks Readers: Should US Legalize Drugs?
CN: Nicholas Kristof wants to know:
Should the U.S. legalize drugs?
The influential New York Times columnist posted the question, which is being asked in mainstream circles with increasing frequency, on his Facebook page Saturday evening. Opinions have come pouring in. "I'm thinking of writing this coming week about whether legalization of drugs makes sense. Any thoughts out there or good resources?" he asked. continued...

Well, he asked,

If you examine the lies and manipulation involved in committing the crime of the Controlled Substance Act. There will be no need to "legalize" cannabis. It won't be worthy of outlawing and Hemp is literally ludicrous as a schedule#1 narcotic. Clearly the competition puts out a lot of money toward over zealous drug worriers campaigns. Remove the lies and then treat the street Pharmaceuticals like any deficiency.

“The Emperor Wears No Clothes” by Jack Herer

The prohibition itself causes the harm in drugs. Same drugs given safely to millions without sharing needles, adulterations or inconsistent dosages. Vices are not crimes and lies are. Lets have some Justice. btw No self respecting grower will ruin their crop pollinating it with hemp as a camouflage.

Vices Are Not Crimes

Ganja has been used safely for 5000 years, Illicit pharmaceuticals were invented around 1850. No one can Gateway to what hasn't been invented. Only prohibition provides the stepping stone.

There's No Such Thing as a 'Gateway Drug' By Scott Morgan



Pot potency has always been a range of THC levels, strains and climates. Extractions, elixirs and synthetic isolations of cannabinoids were in common use. Hash oil and Panama Red, Acapulco Gold, Thai stick or Vietnamese in the 60's and early 70's were higher potency than todays kynd bud.

Pot Potency? Boomers' blissfully unfazed by mere facts.

All the drug czar's propaganda did was raise the price of BC bud, like free advertising. Buyers clubs have shown how to do it. Or home growing as a cost savings for Pharmaceuticals a less intoxicating substance than alcohol.

Virtues' of Ganja

The Ganjawar perpetuates the "enforcment" profits with not much change in the usage or harm done since the 60's. Nixon's lie keeps on killing. Filling prisons and keeping an organic food, plastic and clothing off the store shelves.

The Ganjawar Fraud

Hemp can give sustenance to poor Mexicans, a staple alternative to crossing the border for farm labor. Hemp crops have been attempted on Indian reservations only to be chopped down by DEA agents. A crop that could do what Casino's do and lower the welfare tax burden. The family farmer growing abortion free Hemp, without the 90 million pounds of poisons used on cotton.

Ganja/Hemp

Nixon lumped hemp and medicinal cannabis into the "marijuana" unsubstantiated schedule#1 classification by rejecting his own tax paid Shaffer Commission report. Then duped Congress with the same bogus statistics and hyperbole as used by todays vested ignorant.

Nixon lied to schedule Ganja #1

Lets have a "Truth" commission on Ganja then the government doesn't have to get involved and muck this up even more. It's what they seem to do best. Check out the unscrupulous "rules" to weigh on the side of maintaining prohibition.



404 gag claus states the jury can not be told of a medical defense because it might confuse them. Charlie Manson was permitted a defense. Charles Lynch and Ed Rosenthal and hundreds of other American citizens were prohibited from defending themselves by the 404 ruling, Even though they were growing in cooperation with their communities, towns and local, county and state government.

Morro Bay Lynching

Mandatory sentencing prohibits or heavily deters innocent accused citizens from even exercising their Constitutional right of a jury trial, in fear of mandatory sentencing if they should be found guilty. 95% choose to plea bargain, that usually includes a profit for expensive rehabs and urine testers.

Heston died, NRA's Mandatory Minimum didn't

Or the prison supply companies and police bloated budgets. The national "marijuana" eradications are comprised of 98% wild non cultivated ditchweed. Saving the kids from burlap?

Eradicated Marijuana Is 98 Percent Ditchweed

Lies and demonizing any deviance is the base of the war on cannabis, the cornerstone of the drug war. With hemp being a major concern for foreign crude oil, knowing vegetable oil has the same cellulose for plastic. Hemp fiber steel was used by Henry Ford making a greater resistance to dents than strip mined sheet-metal. Hemp fiberboard is stronger than trees and yields 4 times more than trees.

Granny Storm Crow's MMJ List

Cannabis was discovered in ancient temple incense and over 100 million use it throughout the world. Time for the truth to remove the bogus laws and give us a choice to the dangerous synthetic alternatives.

US: Pot Shrinks Tumors; Government Knew In '74
by Raymond Cushing, (29 Mar 2001) San Antonio Current US
Wednesday, March 28, The United States Supreme Court rules on whether marijuana use for medicinal purposes can be a valid defense on charges of marijuana possession. The following article was listed as one of the top 25 censored stories of the year 2000. We reprint it here and pose the question, why would the government want to keep us from knowing this?

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US Drug Czar Calls for End To 'War on Drugs' By Andy Sullivan
CN Source: Reuters June 05, 2009 Washington, D.C.

The Obama administration's top drug cop plans to spend more money on treating addiction and scale down the "war on drugs" rhetoric as part of an overhaul of U.S. counternarcotics strategy.

But don't expect the White House to consider legalizing marijuana, drug czar Gil Kerlikowske said on Friday.

Ah, Jeez, Not This Shit Again!

"... government of the people and by the people
sets a single standard for all who hold power:
you must maintain your power through consent, not coercion"
~ Barock Obama,
6.5.9 speech in Egypt



Tighter Medical-Marijuana Bill Clears Panel

Supporters of Legalized MMJ Gear Up For Fight

N.J. Assembly Committee Passes Bill To Allow MMJ

Reefer Sameness US WA: Editorial

Drug policy is at a crossroads in America. The "War on Drugs," it seems, is headed toward a final resting place in the history books. The Obama Administration has said it will stop using the term in its dealings of drug control policy, perhaps putting an end to an era of domestic and foreign drug policy that more and more are coming to realize was an utter failure in many ways.

Vt. Has Highest Rate of Pot Smokers US VT

Between 2005 and 2007, the number of marijuana-related criminal cases in the state increased from 1,535 to 1,820, according to Max Schlueter, director of the Vermont Criminal Information Center. That trend took a downward turn in 2008, Schlueter said, when only 1,805 marijuana cases were investigated in the state.

Coloradans Report Drinking Less, Smoking More Pot
US CO

Coloradans say they are doing less hard drinking than they did in the past few years but say they are more likely to smoke pot, according to a two-year federal assessment to be released today.



Extradition Hearing Adjourned Pending Negotitation
by JodieGR 06/04/09

June 3rd, 2009

The extradition hearing was rescheduled for the week of September 28th, but the plea deal should be complete and the sentencing underway at that time, which will likely cancel the hearing in September.

Vancouver Pot Activist Marc Emery To Plead Guilty To US Drug Charge

Marijuana activist Marc Emery says he plans to drop his fight against extradition to the U.S. and plead guilty to one charge of drug distribution in a Seattle courtroom next month.

Pot Activist Bows to Extradition
CN BC

Marc Emery, the self-described "Prince of Pot," says he is willing to stop fighting his extradition to the United States on charges of selling pot seeds to Americans and plead guilty on a drug charge even though it could mean up to eight years in a U.S. jail.

"Crime is contagious....
if the government becomes a lawbreaker,
it breeds contempt for the law."
~ Justice Louis Brandeis



Canadian police officer David Brazier OpEd Legalize and regulate drug use

The point is that the unintended consequences of drug prohibition cause far more serious harm than drugs themselves. These consequences include public disorder, backlogged courts, high property crime rates, organized crime and gang violence over control of the drug trade. These costs are not worth an absolute prohibition on drug use in our society.

Beyond The War On Drugs
Canada: Editorial

John Reynolds, a staunch Conservative, is standing up for an experimental program in which prescription heroin is given out, under medical supervision, to addicts in Vancouver and Montreal. His stance is more than just a welcome relief from Ottawa's typically narrow, pro-abstinence approach. It is a recognition of "the Johnsons," who are as much a part of the Conservative base as the social conservatives to whom the government has pandered on the issue of drug addiction.

Pot Grower Gets To Keep North Vancouver House
Canada: Bailey, Sue Edmonton Sun 30 May 2009

Forfeiture Endangers American Rights

"Civil asset forfeiture has allowed police to view all of America as some giant national K-Mart, where prices are not just lower, but non-existent — a sort of law enforcement 'pick-and-don't-pay.'"
—U.S. Representative Henry Hyde

Medical Marijuana Is a Necessary Compassion
US DE: Editorial: The News Journal 01 Jun 2009

Should marijuana be legally prescribed as a pain reliever in New York?
by The Post-Standard Monday May 18, 2009

MEDICAL MARIJUANA IS ABOUT COMPASSION
Web: Letter Of The Week

Bravo for the courage of both Joe Gamble, who took the risk to put a human face on the use of marijuana for medical purposes, and to the Post Standard for the lead story and long article on his plight May 18. For Joe Gamble, the use of the herbal cannabinoid marijuana has benefits that far outweigh its costs. Unfortunately, it is prohibited and makes a criminal of a man with a life of outstanding service. Some criminal.

Bruce Mirken of San Francisco
Letter Writer Of The Month


Joe Gamble of Liverpool is a former Army paratrooper and commercial test pilot who suffers from multiple schlerosis and smokes marijuana to relieve his pain. He's been advocating in Albany for a medical marijuana bill.

"Just living is not enough.
One must have sunshine, freedom, and a little flower."
~ Hans Christian Andersen


Fox tells Britain's GQ magazine, "I can't tell you how much bull**** I've been through because I will openly say that I smoke weed. People look at it like it's this crazy, hippy, f*****-up thing to do. And it's not. I hope they legalize it.

Megan Fox: 'I Hope They Legalise Cannabis'
US: Web

Superman's MJ Likes Marijuana and Carl Sagan Did, Too
By Ellen Komp, 4/16/07

Celebrity Stoners: American High Society



Carl Sagan Essay on Mary Jane

Sagan was a user of marijuana. Under the pseudonym "Mr. X", he wrote an essay concerning cannabis smoking in the 1971 book Marihuana Reconsidered, written by Sagan's close friend Lester Grinspoon.[27][28] In his essay, Sagan wrote how marijuana use had helped to inspire some of his works and enhance sensual and intellectual experiences. After Sagan's death, Grinspoon disclosed this to Sagan's biographer, Keay Davidson. The publishing of this biography, Carl Sagan: A Life, in 1999, brought much media attention to the issue of the use and legalization of marijuana.

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COUNTY RELEASES POT DATA

A Majority Of 197 Arrests Since Nov. 4 Have Been Caucasian

With little fanfare, the county has released its first-ever public report on marijuana arrests and prosecutions. County Clerk Ken Goodenow finalized the report late Monday afternoon as directed by county ordinance 08-181, also known as "Peaceful Sky." The law, which makes adult personal use of marijuana the lowest law-enforcement priority, started as a ballot initiative Hawaii County voters passed by a 53 percent to 38 percent margin Nov. 4.

The Racist Ganjawar

Red Light For Green Harvest
US HI: Editorial

Say No To Green Harvest, Yes To RxGanja

I am a patient with a medical marijuana permit in three states and Canada. I was a schoolteacher, a case manager and for the past 14 years I have been a disability advocate here in Hawaii. This is a call to all Hawaii residents to say "no" to federal money for Green Harvest.

Pot-Eradication Program Axed By Jason Armstrong
CN Source: Hawaii Tribune Herald May 18, 2007 Hawaii



MEDICAL MARIJUANA: VETERANS ADMINISTRATION SAYS POSITIVE MARIJUANA DRUG SCREENING WILL NOT VOID PAIN CONTRACTS FOR VETS WITH DOCTORS' RECOMMENDATIONS

Is the Veterans Administration changing its tune on medical marijuana? Well, not exactly, but now it looks like at least they won't throw you out of their pain management programs if you're a registered user in a state where it's legal.

DRUG TESTING: RANDOM SUSPICIONLESS DRUG TESTS SUFFER DOUBLE SMACKDOWN IN LOUISIANA

Louisiana proponents of random, suspicionless drug testing are smarting after being handed a pair of defeats in the past 10 days.



Scott Morgan has Top Anti-Drug Researcher Changes His Mind, Says Legalize Marijuana


Dr. Donald Tashkin UCLA

"Early on, when our research appeared as if there would be a negative impact on lung health, I was opposed to legalization because I thought it would lead to increased use and that would lead to increased health effects," Tashkin says. "But at this point, I'd be in favor of legalization. I wouldn't encourage anybody to smoke any substances. But I don't think it should be stigmatized as an illegal substance. Tobacco smoking causes far more harm. And in terms of an intoxicant, alcohol causes far more harm." (McClatchy)


Lester Grinspoon,
Associate Professor Emeritus
of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School,

Lester Grinspoon originally endeavored to write Marijuana Reconsidered in order to build a case against marijuana, but as his research progressed, he realized the complexities of the plant and was moved to advocate for legalization. He has testified before Congress, and as an expert witness in various legal proceedings, including the deportation hearings of John Lennon. Grinspoon worked with Ramsey Clark on a number of international marijuana related incidents. (wiki)

Marijuana-Uses.com

Grinspoon's Medical Marijuana website

Mikuriya Medical Practice

Warlock's Cannabis/Marijuana Rants


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GERMAN PARLIAMENT APPROVES HEROIN MAINTENANCE
EUROPE
Germany is about to become the latest country to move heroin maintenance from pilot program to permanent. In the US, we maintain our addicts behind bars.

Flouting Of Needle Code May Backfire, VIHA Says
CN BC: Watts, Richard Victoria Times-Colonist 02 Jun 2009

Helping Heroin Addicts
CN MB: Editorial: Winnipeg Free Press 02 Jun 2009

Drug Treatment Court Better Than Nothing

Lock Them Up Until They're Clean
CN BC: Column

They lose their right to live as drug addicts when they start using our tax money and stealing our property to pay for their addicted lives. And we have a moral duty to step in and help people unable to cope with their problems, an imperative we are presently failing to achieve.

Heading Down The Wrong Path
CN NK: Editorial

According to Brian Duplessis, who runs the two homeless shelters, dealing with the illegal activity - selling and doing drugs - is the first step in reducing the population of tent city. We agree. If it were too difficult or dangerous to sell and take drugs there, most of the residents would move on.

Addicts To Get Free Heroin
Canada: Austin, Ian Victoria Times-Colonist 02 Jun 2009


DWR: by Peter Blapps

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Organics and Pesticides: Isn't It Ironic

FAIR has often complained that too much of journalism consists of reprinting press releases virtually verbatim. But in this case, journalists took the time to take the central finding of a study and stand it on its head. If pesticide residue in food is a story worth covering, media could have alerted readers that it is present in a large majority of the produce most commonly eaten. And for readers who are concerned about that, they could have pointed out that buying organic was a simple way to dramatically reduce your chances of consuming such chemicals.

Legalize It! Text by Ted Williams
audubonmagazine November/December 1999

Cannabis sativa is a low-maintenance crop that can be used in paper, clothing, rope-even cars. So why, when it's grown in 32 other countries, is hemp still illegal in the United States?

hemp food

Hempseed is a great source of the essential fatty acids Omega-3 Linolenic Acid and Omega-6 Linoleic Acid, as well as the hard-to-get Gamma-Linoleic Acid. While most foods have little if any, HempNut is over 36% Essential Fatty Acids, and in nature's perfect balance of 1-to-3 omega-3mega

HempNut™ Nutrition



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Fear in the Fields
Seattle Times: July 3 - 4, 1997

A 1997 Seattle Times investigation found that, across the nation, industrial wastes laden with heavy metals and other dangerous materials are being used in fertilizers and spread over farmland. The process, which is legal, saves dirty industries the high costs of disposing of hazardous wastes. The process is similar to the paradigm of fluoridation, in which the dumping of EPA certified hazardous wastes into the water supply saves industry the cost of disposal, while at the same time affecting the neurological and behavioral capabilities of the population, as well as producing vast medical profits from the long-term neurophysiological effects.

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Corporate Ownership

Almost all media that reach a large audience in the United States are owned by for-profit corporations--institutions that by law are obligated to put the profits of their investors ahead of all other considerations. The goal of maximizing profits is often in conflict with the practice of responsible journalism.

What's Wrong with the News?: Advertiser Influence

Interlocking Directorates of large media companies

Fairness and Accuracy In Reporting

The Toxic Chemistry of Everyday Products
Exposed: and What's At Stake for American Power, by Mark Schapiro

FAIR on the Environment

Ganja/Hemp

High on Hemp

Peak Oil vs Hemp

jackherer.com



Drug War Doublespeak by Laura Carlsen
(Center for International Policy, 3/9/09)

How real is the recent round of scare stories about Mexico and the drug war, and what interests are served by it? We'll hear from Laura Carlsen of the Americas Program of the Center for International Policy.

Drug Czar Continues Assault on First Amendment 7/31/00

Once again, White House Drug Czar Gen. Barry McCaffrey is using federalfunding to bribe corporations to surreptitiously insert government-approvedmessages into media content.



The Next Big Thing: Methamphetamine in the United States
by Ryan S. King (Sentencing Project, 5/06) pdf

The Man Who Outran Drug Assassins
Mexico: Diebel, Linda Toronto Star 02 Jun 2009

Those most affected left out of debate
Arpaio vs. Immigrants: By Aura Bogado



20 Stories That Made a Difference: For better or worse
(January/February 2006) By Steve Rendall and Peter Hart and Julie Hollar

Weasel Words on Negroponte
(Update April 2005) By Peter Hart

Taking a Dive on Contra Crack
(March/April 2005) By Gary Webb

How the Mercury News caved in to the media establishment
Jeff Cohen on Gary Webb (12/17/04)



Kill the Messenger

When Gary Webb took his own life two years ago, he and I had both been working at the Sacramento News & Review. In the days that followed, I fielded numerous phone calls from well-meaning folks who were convinced that he had been shot by the agency he went after in his famed "Dark Alliance" series. My personal belief is that the CIA didn't need to kill Gary; they'd already set his demise in motion by employing "unnamed sources" to discredit him in the nation's major print media. To the very end, Gary complained that no one had ever disproved a single fact in his series. The fact that so many respected newspapers so eagerly took this bait, and that one of our nation's last true investigative reporters had been driven to such desperation, is something I could not reconcile then or now.


Backers of CIA-led Nicaraguan rebels brought cocaine to poor L.A. neighborhoods in early '80s to help finance war -- and a plague was born. Published: Aug. 18, 1996



Kathmandu and the Black Prince

Cover-Ups, Prevarications, Subversions & Sabotage

Demonizing Drugs

CrazyCalvinaFay

WomansWackyVengeance Union

The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly
is to fill the world with fools. -- Herbert Spencer



Iowa Pharmacy Board Rejects sidestep Medical Marijuana
By Ryan Grim CN Source: Huffington Post June 05, 2009 Iowa

The Iowa Board of Pharmacy sidestepped a court ruling this week that had ordered it to consider whether the state should reclassify marijuana as having medical value. The Iowa board was ordered by a district court judge to consider whether "marijuana has accepted medical use in the United States." Thirteen states have deemed that marijuana has accepted medical use and have legalized it with doctor approval.

Bitter Pill by Trudy Lieberman
(Columbia Journalism Review, 7–8/05)
The nation's leading drug manufacturers have considerable political clout-- but how do they flex their muscles when it comes to the media?

It always seems to boil down to the greed. Always by the loudest ones screeching the same ole shit about saving the kids. DEAth groupie Cops and Caliporno Rehabs, Pisssniffers, Drug Co's and their lackey poll licking ticks. Don't look at the sick and dying behind the curtain. Don't say a word on the 6'oclock news. Ban research and cage growers. Ask the rejects why they side step. Why hasn't the 99 IOM been implemented yet? The FDA never tested pot, they took the word of the Waldo DEAth snots. Spoiled brats sucking daddy's teat selected to pillage the Treasury. While these government jagoffs spit in our face. We do go out of our way to peacefully demonstrate, and get maced. We talk real polite like kindergarden teachers and they defame and degrade, try to shame us into feeling what we do is wrong thinking.

Going blindly into the Iraqi night with hundreds of sortie's bombing brown kids is alreich, based on a lie. Same as Trick Dick Nickson, shelving the Shafer Commission report. Shuck and Jive, shell game and lies. The integrity rest on these caterpillars of society? These scoundrels allowing their own citizens, neighbors and relatives to suffer or be punished for doing what is less harm than what's legal. Building more cages than schools and "We the Fools" fight over scraps they pitch towards us. Divide the plant into 3 pieces all with the same #1 narcotic status. Reality really don't matter. Who ya gonna call? The cops? LOL. Pitifools running the state of affairs.